ALAS-2025-796


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-796
Advisory Release Date: 2025-01-06 19:21 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-01-09 13:05 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string. (CVE-2024-21538)


Affected Packages:

nodejs


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update nodejs --releasever 2023.6.20250107 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    nodejs-libs-debuginfo-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-debuginfo-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-full-i18n-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    v8-10.2-devel-10.2.154.26-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-libs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-devel-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-npm-10.8.2-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs-debugsource-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

noarch:
    nodejs-docs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch

src:
    nodejs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    nodejs-libs-debuginfo-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-full-i18n-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    v8-10.2-devel-10.2.154.26-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-debuginfo-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-devel-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-libs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-npm-10.8.2-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs-debugsource-18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64